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Tananarive Due is an educator and leading voice in black speculative fiction. She is the author of twelve novels and a civil rights memoir. Her novella, “Ghost Summer,” published in The Ancestors (2008), received the Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society. She also writes short fiction, which has appeared in best-of anthologies, and is a screenwriter. Learn more at tananarivedue.com.


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How did we end up so far east, on the flanks of a cold beach? You told me you always wanted to see the Pelagio, ever since you were a child. But your skin was never made for water. You shouldn’t have ever learned to swim.
look through the soap, the suds, the sopping wet clothes
as she leaves mortality behind / She always returns to me
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